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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 3375404" data-attributes="member: 34175">I would guess no - WotC entered the metal market with the Chainmail line trying to create a point style game and got CRUSHED by Reaper when their sales couldn't keep up.  They entered the random pre-painted plastic minis market because there was no one else doing it that way (a very smart move on WotCs part).But Reaper survives as a niche market modeler, they devote about 92% of their resources to minis, not books, not novels, not T-shirts, etc. so they can keep a large inventory of items on stock (something that WotC, a division of Hasbro, will not allow nor can afford).  And unlike WotC Reaper regularly re-scuplts the same figure in the metal line when it starts garnering flagging sales numbers.  As a former metal mini modeler, I have several Reaper figs with the same name but very different sculpts.Usually in the neghborhood of about 40 (sometimes less, sometimes more), of course if your question is due to number of sculpts available, they probably won't "retire" their lines as fast as WotC, which may be the reason that WotC made the current re-casting/re-issue thing known.Another reason Reaper may be entering the plastic minis market might be du to recent shortages in the metals market.  About three years ago Reaper released a news brief that stated their supplier of metals (China I believe) had started to actually use their own resources and were no longer shipping amounts large enough at prices low enough for Reaper to continue to sell their minis at such low prices.  Their average price of a mini went up from 2.00 to about 3.25.  Plastics may be more readily available and might be easier to recast due to the amounts of new to old material needed during the recycling process (pewter unlike lead needs larger amounts of new slag in order to re-cast).  So for Reaper, this could be finincial benificial all the way around.  Anyone from Reaper care to comment on this? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As for releasing orcs, undead, ogres and trolls first instead of adventurers, I would assume that Reaper has watched the available market like we all have.  Realistically, the amount of available orcs, undead, ogres and trolls at affordable prices are really not that great.  Yeah orcs, pretty well covered, but undead is more than skeletons and reaper has a tradition of releaasing large amounts of wraiths, ghosts, ghouls, vampires and mummies, things that have been either rare by distribution or of little focus in the DDM line.  Trolls and Ogres are probably on the list due to the aftermarket prices being so high for these figs.  And Merric, I would assume that Giants are on their list, why should they quit making them now? (They have always had quite a few on their roster.)</blockquote>

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